Server there, store here; output store dates with daylight saving time

[superslurpee]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble with dates. My server is at GMT while my store is in the central time zone in Canada. During daylight savings time, we are GMT-5 and GMT-6 when not.

How do I account for these changes when outputting the date and time? I was just hardcoding a subtraction of 5 or 6 hours but this hardly practical.

Any help is appreciated!

 

[nawlej]

Can you explain a little more what your trying to do, I am a little confused.

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[DRJ478]

Read this:

http://www.devnewz.com/devnewz-3-20031113OnUserDefinedTimezonesinPHP.html

 

[ingresman]

Thats quite and interesting, if fluffy, article DRJ. What would be great is if you could send up the TZ with browser request, I'm sure a bit of Javascript would fit the bill.
I assume on the article they require the portal user to register a timezone.
I have a server in the USA and I'm in the UK and I'm convincedthat the remote server condered GMT as its own local time !

 

[superslurpee]

Hi,

Thanks for your posts but I'm still a bit confused.

I'll explain a bit more. My server is in the UK and uses GMT. That is, if it's 19:55 GMT, my server's localtime is 19:55 (the same). I am in Canada where we observe daylight saving (we are right now). So right now, our time is 14:55 or GMT-5. I have just been hardcoding the server's time minus 5 hours to display the store's time (here in Canada).

Now in the fall when daylight saving time ends, we become GMT-6. That is, the time would be 13:55. A hardcoded subtraction of 5 hours does not work anymore.

How can I account for this time change? In many of the articles I read, the server isn't using GMT but mine is. This is driving me batty!

Thanks for any help!

 

[DRJ478]

What about this:

print "<pre>";
# show current time zone
print("Server timezone is: " . getenv('TZ') . "<br />\n");
print("Server time is: " . date("H:i:s") . "<br />\n");
# change
putenv("TZ=US/Eastern");
print_r(localtime(time(),1));
print("New timezone is: " . getenv('TZ') . "<br />\n");
print("New time is: " . date("H:i:s") . "<br />\n");

Let's see if that does it!

 

[superslurpee]

Hi,

I really appreciate your help with this! I think what you suggested is on the right track but when I output the code you provided on my server at GMT I get this:

Server timezone is:
Server time is: 08:43:22
ArrayNew timezone is: US/Eastern
New time is: 04:43:22

The getenv('TZ') function doesn't seem to return anything. I tried various ways and it was always empty. The print_r(localtime(time(),1)); line writes out 'Array'.

Any thoughts on this matter are appreciated!

 

[ingresman]

Can you telet to the server ?,if you can do an env and post the results